Forest of Drizzling Rain. 'Forest of Drizzling Rain' is a horror adventure made by Stardust KRNKRN in RPG Maker VX. The translation provided is by Tosiaki.

Review written by Kera Hildebrandt. After reviewing a 3D game like Haunt. which required me to clean out most of my hard drive on my long-suffering laptop, it's good to go back to a good ol' RPG Maker game. And fortunately for a scare freak like me, 75% of those games are horror. One on my playlist - Forest of Drizzling Rain. Basic gist - college student Shiori Kanzaki loses both her parents on her birthday. Lonely and depressed, Shiori finds a picture of her grandpa and travels to his village, ultimately ending up at a museum that used to be her family's home.

When a local girl goes missing in a patch of forbidden woods, Shiori ventures into it and finds horrors related to the Kotori Obake, a monster woman said to abduct children. Okay. I normally would try my hardest to not give out any spoilers, but I don't think that's a possibility when discussing the story of this game (not plot points, so much as it is the trends in the plot's tone). So, say hello to gigantic spoiler tags. ***SPOILER***SPOILER***SPOILER***SPOILER***SPOILER***.

The game starts out pretty tame. Kinda sad, actually (like, emotionally sad, not quality sad). As the game passes, it appears any scares would be reserved to Ib levels of dread and disturbance. Then, like the first big ramp in a roller coaster, we get thrown into Fatal Frame -levels of blood, shock, and sheer unsettledness (in fact, I think that you yourself would be able to pinpoint which room that the dial on the WTFomiter is cranked up to eleven).

So, is this a good thing or a bad thing? Honestly, it's certainly not a bad thing. With this dramatic turn of events, you'll probably be as shocked as our heroine. ***SPOILER***SPOILER***SPOILER***SPOILER***SPOILER***.

To start out with the good - the story is pretty emotionally-driving; enough for you to care about the characters. Not to mention that the later 'oh my god this just got really dark' part did good at filling the Camera Obscure-shaped hole in my heart. 'And so I said - "Failed ritual? Bitch, I don't need no failed ritual. I just do this for the lulz. "'. And now, the bad - again, trying seriously hard not to give away any spoilers, I would have liked more of a connection between the characters (mostly two specific ones that are at the centre of the story, which I will not name.

Just play the game if you wanna know who the hell I'm blabbing about). Again, the story makes you care about the characters already, but a little extra credit never hurts. There were times where I couldn't understand what the hell was going on because the letters were cut off at the edge of the screen. Examples -.